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As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation is focused on the myriad of factors which make our city unique and successful. With an emphasis on strengthening this region's competitiveness in the global economy, the Foundation works with many partners to publish cutting edge research, hold public forums, and convene task forces of experts and stakeholders to create action agendas for real change.

TBF News

In a letter to staff, TBF President and CEO Paul S. Grogan highlights the cruel inhumanity of racism, and our redoubled conviction to pursue social justice.

For many women of color, undocumented and unemployed individuals in Revere and surrounding cities, WEE Revere is a place of refuge. The COVID-19 crisis is amplifying the underlying issues their members have been dealing with long before the pandemic.

With this latest round of 18 general operating support grants, The COVID-19 Response Fund grantmaking-to-date passes $5 million.

The weight of the economic well-being of this part of Dorchester rests on the shoulders of Bowdoin-Geneva Main Streets. From connecting the area's small businesses to resources, translating legal and financial documents into multiple languages and helping business owners navigate zoning restrictions, BGMS is vital to the survival of many local businesses.

In this conversation between Boston Business Journal's Carolyn Jones, TBF's Orlando Watkins, United Way of Massachusetts Bay's Karley Ausiello & Casey Brock Wilson of City of Boston, these local leaders discuss our communities' greatest needs during COVID-19, how we can all help and how we must move forward.

As part of the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) annual conference, TBF CEO discussed how Boston has evolved over the years and where it's headed. City Councillor At-Large Michelle Wu, President of the NAACP Boston Branch Tanisha M. Sullivan, Esq. and Co-Director of Initiative on Cities at Boston University Katharine Lusk were a part of this conversation, moderated by WBUR's Radio Boston host Tiziana Dearing.

Boston Indicators, the research center of the Boston Foundation, this week unveiled a new platform designed to give the general public greater access and insights into local data around the impact of the COVID-19 on Greater Boston and Massachusetts.

DOVE Inc. (Domestic Violence Ended), a Quincy-based nonprofit that runs a shelter and hotline for victims, received a $40,000 grant from TBF's COVID-19 Response Fund.

In a new report, YWBoston looks at the challenging but rewarding journey to improving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) within nonprofit organizations. The report looks at how ten organizations, funded by the Boston Foundation, are using the YW's InclusionBoston curriculum and strategy to make progress diversifying leadership, advancing racial equity, and changing organizational culture.

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This report from Health Resources in Action shares some of the promising early findings from our Health Starts at Home partners on the impact of coordinated health and housing supports for housing and health care unstable families in Greater Boston.

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A new report from Boston Indicators and the Boston Foundation Education to Careers team highlights the steady decline in school-aged population in Boston, and its impact on the city's district and charter school populations.

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